Byunghang Ha

Byunghang Ha is a postdoctoral researcher co-mentored by Prof. Ovijit Chaudhuri (ME) and Prof. Natalie Torok (Medicine). He discovered that T-cells tear apart soft tissue extracellular matrices via breaststroke-like motion to migrate through confining microenvironments. He earned his PhD at Stanford, developing microfluidic devices that create liquid sheet jets for X-ray spectroscopy studies (now SLAC standard toolkit) and drop-based single-cell PET platforms for cancer research. He aims to establish an independent research lab that advances fundamental physical biology and innovates medicine by bridging his expertise in fluid mechanics, microfluidic devices, biomaterials, and cell biophysics. To date, his research has led to 24 peer-reviewed publications (8 first-author), 1 preprint, 1 review article, and 8 patents.